arbaleste

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Middle French

Alternative forms

arbalestre, arcbaleste, arcbalestre, abalestre, abeleste, alboulestre, abollatre, aubelete, erbaleste, erbareste, esbalestre, orbalestre, arbalastre, armbenleste, arbalêtre

Etymology

From Old French arbaleste.

Noun

arbaleste f (plural arbalestes)

crossbow

Descendants

French: arbalète (see there for further descendants)
→ Occitan: arbalèta

Old French

Alternative forms

arbaste, arbastre, areblaste, arblaste, arbelaste, arbalestre, arbeleste, arbalete, arcbalste, abaleste, abolaistre, abolastre, aubaleste, aubeleste, aubalestre, aubelestre

Etymology

From Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus + ballista.

Noun

arbaleste oblique singular, f (oblique plural arbalestes, nominative singular arbaleste, nominative plural arbalestes)

arbalest (medieval crossbow)

Descendants

Inherited:
- Bourbonnais-Berrichon: arblé
- Bourguignon: arbelet, arc à balle, arblète, arbelètre
- Franc-Comtois: airbelatre, abelatre, abletre, ablatre, ablotre, abëréta, abarèta, orberata, obareta
- Lorrain: erbelate, erboulete, erbelete, arbolete
- Middle French: arbaleste, arbalestre, arcbaleste, arcbalestre, abalestre, abeleste, alboulestre, abollatre, aubelete, erbaleste, erbareste, esbalestre, orbalestre, arbalastre, armbenleste, arbalêtre
  - French: arbalète (see there for further descendants)
  - → Occitan: arbalèta
- Norman: erbalêtre, erbalête, erbalette, arbalê, arbalesque, arbalêque,
- Picard: arbalèsse, arbaléte, âr-à-ballètes, abalète, arbalète, abaléte, abalette, arcabalète
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: tirbalète
- Walloon: arbalèsse, ârbalèsse, ârbalète, aurbalète, arbèlète, ârbalaise
Borrowed:
- → English: arbalest
- → Medieval Latin: arbalista
- → Middle High German: armbrust
  - Alemannic German: Armbruscht
  - German: Armbrust
- → Middle Low German: armborst
  - → Old Norse: armbrist n, armbryst f
    - Danish: armbrøst
    - Icelandic: armbrysti, armbryst
    - Norwegian: armbrøst
    - Old Swedish: armborst
      - Swedish: armborst

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (arbaleste, supplement)
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “arcuballĭsta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 109

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